Leonard Sulski Lecture at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – The eighth annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 29, at 8 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Professor Jane Hawkins of the University of North Carolina will give this year’s lecture titled, "Smoothing out the Rough Edges of Fractals."

Hawkins graduated from Holy Cross in 1976 and continued her studies as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Warwick in England, where she received her Ph.D. in 1981. Her research specialties include Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.

The lecture will be preceded by a dinner in the Hogan Campus Center.

The annual mathematical lecture series is a tribute to Leonard C. Sulski who taught in the mathematics department at Holy Cross from 1965 until his death from leukemia in 1991.